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.... tiI 1 IMEIILEsCNVM~I,1~2
RIIITT
eind to the Loved ones at Home.
kind to thy Father, for wlien thou wort
Who-loved hee o tenderly as he?
Ie caught the first necents that full froin thy
tongue'
And oinal in thy innocent glee.
ie -kin tu thy fdther-for now he is old,
vai s locks interiningle with grey;
1 footstups arc feeble, ouno feurless and
bol,
arhy fixtler In pulsing tway!
kind to thy.otler-for lo! on her brow
'bray trnces of sorrow he seen;
0 well anay'st thou cherish nod confort her
nowy,
.For lovin anti kind lias Osh been.
IeOinember thy Mother! for thee she Will pray
7-A. long na God giveth her breath,
With accents of kitidness then cheer her lone
wa
E'en to t se dark vailey of dleath.
Ile kind to thy Brother-his heart will hMve
dearth,
If tile stuile of tlty joy he withdra wo;
-.The'flowers of feeling will fatde at their birth,
If the dew of nfectioi be gote.
Jie kind to thy Brother; wherever yout are,
;Tile love of a brother shall .e;
An ornament pttrer naul richer by far,
Tn pearls from the depth of the sea.
Be. kind to thy Sister-not inmany suny know
The dephia of ane sisterly loave;
The wealth of the ocean lies futihtoms below
The surface tht siarkles athove.
lBe kind to thy Father, unee fearless and bold,
Be kind to thy Mother so mner;
le kid to thy Brother, nor show thy heart
cud,
e,kiut to thy Sister so dear.
t- -- -5-M-U-:-M- -M -
MISCELLANEOUS.
T0ac Power of R1eligion Ilui
A husband and wife, in New York,
who have lived in harmony and in
terrupted confidence for nearly a t
quarter of a century, have recently
had a tmisunderstanling, which grcw I
nut odf some trivial family circum- 1:
stance. The wife took deep urn- t
-hra'r at somc chilimg remark of her I
liusband, and left him and abandoied t
er falily of children. Her ah- 1
sence cocastoned great distress, and .
; efforts were made to bring her home;
lmut she had resolved never nain to L
iye 'with- her husband. 11er friends r
xpostul:uted, her son enmtreated, and t
tite 1eighbors who had noticed her
laing years of joy urged her to return
to her fatnily. The interference of a
these parties only heightened her,
anger and intensilied her htate, and
she finally wandered off from the
scenes of home. She went to Cit'
Cinnati; was pursued by her fricinis
and hearing of their approach, left.
The next that was heard of her, shein
had, arrived in this city. - Ier hus
band and son arrived here otn Satur
day m ring sought an interview
ivith her, which after much hesita
a
tion, granted; but only to give posi- ,
ye denial to their entreaties. The b
hus)and 'owed down with heavy
grief,. finally asked a clergYmtan to
visit her. The priest complied, aidl
the restilt of his conference was, dleep
Icontribution in the mother uni 1we,
and a desire again to see her hints. I
band and son, anl a. consent to t
cleerfully return with tlhe.n to New 9
York. 1ere was nccoinplished,
thriongh the agency of religon, a
blessing that could tiever have been
consumated by law or physical foree.
Ani this is albavs the case wherever
there is faith in Gori, andil a true tv
erince f'or his commtanids.-Bolsbon
.Pr'ematziure Hatril .
A most extraordinary case of prle
matu. hool , says a P aris letter,
ii jneK 'cC rred in the Comunflife of
1i Vacht in thte Dro:ne, of which a
near- rela tiotn of the victim, inhai biting
Tyons, has kyritten a full accotunt to
one0 Qf..tljo Ig ling journals of that ci
t se;ms that the deceased,
.Qihad been~gegdually declinming in
healrth for' about dx ub',thts; that ont
Othe 8th of last mont'h, at 10 o'clock
in; the evenings, sha3 appeared to
~breath her last. IHer father, moth
* M~:a yonng cousin of 128, and other
a':fi'iundsA attinding at her liedside, had
o:~2j donbt of hter being dead, and in
oe course of an hour thle ~assistants
~rueeeded to' lay hier ouit, when -to
~ their horror, her'month was seen to
sopen. They wvent on, ho wever,- with
;their melancho~y task, andi got her
od-to bury her, butt as obot was a
h i1n~ riof tle sisterhood of' the Im
A o1late Conceptio#n in which the
d.~ diro ahvays carried to the place
'burial in an open cofiIn, witht the
ua~encover'ed., thu dlecasead wvas s1een
to opendjier eyes, which so terrified
th heatecrs, that they set down tihe
.Web Griadd1 called uipon one~ ot tihe su
~pel iors of the order, to whotm they
hiitad vhat thmey had s.'en; bumt when
t sut~ perior atrri ved ont the spoti tihe
girl's eyes were closed, so she only
laughei at their terror, and ordered
theu to proceed to the cemetery.
Tie young woman's eyes opened
again at the gate of the cemetery;
but the burial still went on. Tie
collin was shut and lowered into the
grave, but when a few shovels.full of
earth tia I been thrown in, a knock
ing was distinctly heard in the inside
of the collin.--This knocking grew
louder and louder as the grave was
illed, and at last, the sexton, half
lead with terror, threw down his
shovel and ran home, where he took
to his bed, in which he still remains.
[ier friends now had the coffin dug
p and opened; but seeing that the
3orpse gave no sign of life, they had
t buried again, and proceeded to fil!
up the grave, when the knockings
were again heard louder than ever.
The collin was now taken up a
sccond time, and carried into the
.hurch, where it reinained until the
12th. A doctor who was sent for
r,.on Valence, opened a vein, from
Vhich the blood flowed abundantly.
[ncredible as it seems, evena this ifact
,vas not considered as conclusive of
leath not having taken place, and
he poor girl was new buried for the
bird time; the same knockings being
again heard as distinctly as before,
vhen the earth was begainning to be
brown in. But the assistants nev
'rtheless looked upon her as dead,
mnd this time the burial was comple
ed, not withstanding the knockings.
3me eighty of the persons present
t those extraordinary proceedings,
ereupon (Irew up and signed a peti
ion to the Prosecutor General of the
kpuic, who innediately visited
lie spot. 1is first care was to pro
ibit all access to the grave-yard,
lid it is to be hoped that the cofil
;ill be opened and the position of the
leceased ascertained1. Bait as yet
othing farther has transpred,-upour
he soiet
IL re I,'l hard t) i.e that -i;
Oriace an i'lrdice-ean still be
o strons; and that, after so iany
cell aut hientieated eases of the seem
ag extiniction of life, in cases of
ri'ane, s sooU. catale psy, &c., where,
evertheless, the patients, though ap
arently dead for days and enii
Teeks, have yet been restored to life
y the jodicious perseveranace of en
ghtened cares of' those arouml them;
young woman iml the prime of
ouith, and suirroutnided by relations t
1ud fricn ds, should Ihave been thus
tupidly consigiled to tie most hor'ri'
le death. of' wliehi the inagiration
ala conceive- t
1FA -hti -a---A -
Lighttnmin-A fe mais. t
It may be well to encourage tril-l
copli who are religiiously or consti
utionlaally talarmcl at liighting, to
tate the doctriin of' chanices. As a
;nral thin1g, the l i ghit iCg does naot
tlike withini the space of a sepnare
Iile more thanii 1nce a vea r. If th e
er'sona is a rod di-t anlt, lie is seldoi ,
f ever, killed. Now there are 70,
[00 sqi are rods inl a sqouare Imile,
nd if' the lighitninig strucak rod alter
'odl, it wouldl take 100( years to go
aver it; buti it smites h ere andl therie,
mda' thiat it w ISil smte any spenedl
'od, ther ~ s nt moiwre th~an one
hance to a Ih undre'd billion.
Agaian, other', thaings being eqjual,
he chanace diinainishecs as it retgards~
low obhjet, ais the dilferenace be
w een the s1pire of(a its h eliht an
hi:u t ot a loweri; so thliat, wnith a per-.
oan six feet, andl a tree sixty feect,
here is bait one chana'ce out of' 3504
>f the paersons being struck. it he
vill go close to a trece, or- ina a hoarse
withouaat a id, baia danger is propor
ionally increased.
Again, objects, non condiuctors
vhena dr'y, become good conduhactors
vhaen wet. A dray silk umbarelhim, if
iot tipped with metallie substance,
n-ill ward oflf the lightaning; but if wet,
lot. Get lightniing rodls for your
aouseq, and see to it that the fasten
ngs be murch smaller tharn the rodls
-that the rods enter the earth, anal
'e~ar not the "red ar'tiller v."
It ii wvell fa- personsa~ who are na
lu y timaid , to gaet electrified a
i:amabar (of tiamecs. It rendlers them
a electaric, anid theref'or'e less ina
hoigear. Finally. a death by light
singI, is the easiest of all deaths. -
~A eleculei enters--we aare inistaantly
[ihled----anad life is goneo without a
pang. a"Ala ! bait the hereaftear!''
Well, ive right here, anal it will be
ill right with you .t~herc-if it uanist
Ava Isacldcit with a Iora'h
For some weeks past, says the New
York Express of Monday, a lone Indi
an tent has been standing on the wes
tern slope of Fox IDill, Hoboken, the
inmates of which were an old Indian,
his squaw and a son. They are wan
derers, we believe, from sonic Canadi
an tribe, and came to that neighbor
hood about two months ago. On Sun
day last the chief' of the wigwam, who
had been ailing for some time past,
was gathered to ti land of' his flit ers.
A few days previously the squaw had
set olit for tihe State of Maine, to
bring two children she has on the fron
tier to the tent, to see the old man be
fure the Great Spirit called him home:
but. her errand, alas! it turned out, was
undertaken too late. The secene at t lie
tent, as soont as it was known the in
dian was dead, was curious and aflect
ing. The son eat mutely and moodily
on tle ground, with his arms folded,
tind his dark piercing eye sorrowfimily
fixed upon the corpse of his dead sire.
It seemed strange to him that they
should put the body into a caflin, inl
stead U'interrin'g it after the inanner
of' his own peopIle?
As soon as the coflin was carried
away by the undertaker, the teit was
ruthlessly rifled of imost of its comtents.
bea ds, baskets and other trin kets the
Indians had been taking fi- a liveli
by solie pale-fieed vtagaibonds
in tle vicinity, spite of-the re inonstran
Les of some kinid-hearted wo melt, who,
with those tetlder and hum1inane i mpuls
as native to the sex, had all along been
attentive to the wants of the dying
itranger. The tent itself was cat r'ed
tway even, leavinig the surviving Indi
in to imake his bed on the cold damp
'artlh, with only tihe sky above for a
!oveLring. And there lie was sitting
ast ni,4ht, wiaiting, in silent sorrow,
.he ret uirl of' his absent relative Fromn
ier pilgrimlage to the. East. It was a
;aId, siggesti ve incident. the death of
he lone in'liat on the hill. Ilis epi
aphi is the epitaph ol'a rpkee ill this re
io of the count ry, once ali thei r ownt.
'At b;L, fo"r lwomi Iheir-dayl...g
PNieit -fra au out irbili ihoro' to i afe;
u mnore for thern'thewilJd- door- hounis
rhi plough lis n.iheir lbnoting grOw AN.
1. t I au m'atf.xetg j imh -! dg
'in inalman'u salIm 'kirM o'er their fluuth,
'Their paasnit springs are - dry;
IPir children, look by power o~p'rssd,
Icyonild the 1m0outa or te \ 1st,
'Iteir chiltircen go to die "
Suomw- AND 'SINGtUL, DEArI'.
-011c of the itmost sildenl and singu
ar deaths from 'iriglt we have ever
een called upon to chronicle, occur
ed at North Market otl yesterday
norning. It appears that Mrs. Sa
ah Jane Boulton, inl passinig throlglh
lie market, dropped her pocket
1ook, awd a woniui namined King, im
nediatcly behind her, pieked it up.
drs.. kdoton missed the book, and
Irnedl anud asked Mrs. Kin if lie
lad found it, who inst anlv replied
hat she had , and returned it to the
MIner. Mrs. 1ob otn opened the
>ook, ald declared that ten dollars
ta1l been talen out of it, which 'Mrs.
.ing denied. The fr,'mer insisted
hat she bad, anl threateneId her
vith a policemnn if she did not re.
urn it, wheni Mrs. Kinig fainted andi
'ell at her fleet. One orI- two police
nen came up and conl neneed hiurry
g the poor w , 'll towarIs the
:ala:boose, but soon) fintding tha~it li fe
uas netarhy if' not quite extint' they'
aid bet' down on a cellar' door', where
bhe sooni expired. A c're'is inl
iuest was hel soon after', andi thle
ubove f'acts elicited.- A tell doll ar'
iill , answeinig to the (one M's. 13el
on alleged to hiave lost, was foun d ini
Nluva. King's basket. M\Is. IKing is
;aid to be tile mtothier: of se veralI chib
hren. -S. L~i lit. Ger. 14.
Plavstoor'Ar F AcT'.--The fa
lwin g 1phiolSi 4 gicatl fa4'ts wiereL triani
:dated f'roim a Frentch Scientille Jour
"The average height of a man and
woman: at birth, is generially six
teeti inehs.-Inu each of' the twelve
years aflter birth, one-t we!Lth is ad.
lde to the statiure ealch 3 ear. - e
tween the age of' twelvye andu twett
thme growth of' the boly 1il wet', amid
it is still furtherCI dimndu iished afr
this, up to twenty-five the pieriodl of'
n, inaximnumt growth. Ini olid age the
heighit of' tile biody~ (ii)iinise on
the aver-age about thruee inches. TIhae
height of' a woman varies less than
that of' a man, ini diff'erent countries.
The average weight of' a male in
fanat is about seven pounds; of
female, about six and( a hal pounds.
Thle weight of' an infant dlecreases
a f'ew day's after its birth, till it is
a week old. At thie cnd of the
first year, the chil is thr'ee timecs as
hleavy as wvhien it is bor'n. At
the age of seven years, it is twice as
beneav na when a cane' o.l '
Of all the detestable. obnoxiou
offensive, unnecessary, and filthy itr
tations which dear woman is guilt
of inheriting from fallen, depravei
corrupt and wicked men, that <
snuff "dipping," "rubbing," "sucI
ing," "grinding," stand pre-eminen
How the second edition of an ange
the nephis ultra of heaven's bet
workmanship, the idol of man, ti
diamond of song, the gem of pros(
and the crowning glory of humanity
can concentrate a tea or tnble.spuo
ful of a pulverized poison that woul
kill a hog, destroy a dog, and prov
certain death to every living anima
except a t:bacco w'orhn (if swalloi
ad) in a mouth whichiis the very c.
sence of nectarine sweetness, upo:
whose lips dwells the deliciousness c
the honey-conb, is to us totally a
variance with all philosophy, reason
scripture, taste, and refinement, ani
utterly incomprehensible ! We wisl
it were a dream, we wish it were ru
mance, we wish it weie not so, bu
sad reality presents the picture of at
angel of beauty, with a heaveni
smile, a rosy cheek,,"the eye of i
gazelle, standing erect in all her ma
jesty, dazzling in robes (,f silk an
diamonds, her form reflqcted in costl,
mirror with a chinquepin stick nicell
cramped between her white finger
with the end in a box oftsnuff, tobac
co, poison, and regutrly plying i
to her shiiing pearls, rFqsy lips an<
mellow tongue Give us our hat
we must go to cunfe'ence.- Ash
oys.
An exchange thus d auerreotype.
the boy of the presentag. Al
who read it will confe. it in th<
best likemess vet obtaine -
G'This has Ibeen tdr .a g oi
progrgs. '.Thqnogr
plifieation of the T; re'ssive teuden
C of the ag-e may. be found boy
ni- -w t
years cf-1age. The boy , e en o1
upwards must wear better broadcloth
than his employer, and boots tc
match. lie Igets the spring and
summer style of hats as soon as they
cone on frorn New York. Ie wears
dickeys of fabuilous dimensions. 11
has Is hair curledl and unlctified hv
the most approved o: f bar-bers. Ilft!
would wear a monstache or imperial
if lie could. le has a " woman
whom lie pays attention to. lie
some times carries a cane, abiout as
large s your little inger, with a ball
of lead'. on the eid of it. 11e struts.
i1e smokes. Ile chews. Ile Swears.
lie dr6inks. Of a fair Sun daV he
stalds at the corner of the street to
show hiimsei. lie stays oit all night.
or into en:ail h1ours, siinlg up1 witl
his; vomai, or otheni.vise! raisingi
"Ned" g]I-erally. H takes his
wmlani ont to hile. Dulrin g the win.
terl he goes to all the dances whieb
come Offl aiboui t every 0: her nilhit. -
ie 1kes niagnificent pre seits to hi
wetaan. Hi; hore ire bil. is as the
lini i)ailes. .lie rad nothing hu1
the "Pirates 1w '.ok," 1 1 -
lLtin, :nol the "Une 5amo."'
I [ Is On TA A 311-:eiANe.----H~on
f'requiently is this remark madte by
anstcre up I. ilstarts. wh 1h iave no'th
ing~ to I econnniied tlhem save theiL
inoiney andI impudenice ~, when I i thu
meaieil~ii~ brnp enus to) be~ men~tionedl b
their pre(senlce, they coid~'er it die
r~adlingr to asociao.e w i thiose'1 nh<
do not c iliethmsl ves, possesu wealth
even thlough that we'ahh was obtaini
ed by l ite most rascailly' mean s. No~
thing is sMo disguistin g to wVell-bried
well. in formned peCopleC, as to lhear ai
haired, brainiless, impiuden~ udaiiuy
tal k ablout m eebinie~s, as if' thej
were asi brutes.
No t rue ladyv or igentl emiian wouho
ly the ignioranat, spoiled beauty, th~
wrthiless, conitemiptiblde soap-loel
who would d'o so. Show us the unai
or' womanii w ho would conlsidler it
disgrace to asstociato( with hioneiss
well-inf'ormed ml(ehaiesc, ando we wil
show you a pioor', wortihess, ignorant
coinceitedl creature, useless to him
self' and the world, and enicumbii'rnc
to his friends.- hi'est Lit. Mess.
'"Order moy advertiseiment to b
discon tinlued for a few daiys,"' sai
a mnerchanl t tol his (cerk. "'I mius
get away f rom busiiness a few dlays to
my hiea-thibut I see pholiiily th~at
shall 1have no leisure a long a 1 oni
Old.11 -ill Making leii 'VilI
5, Old Bill L.-, was a close an
Ii 'cute on 'em.' He married abot
,y twenty years since the daughter <
.) Mrs. G--, who had but one othe
) child-a sin. She had about twei
ty 'wolly heads,' of which she gav
t her son Lem II- , three, and Iii
19 ing at old Billy's house, she had no
It thought proper to give him any proj
C erty at all. Ile had the use of th
' servants, and his good mamnma-in-lai
, thought that was enough. But th
old lady was very kind-hearted an
d credulous; and yet with all thes
Q good qualities in his favor old Bill
had planned and plotted for years ii
vain, trying to introduce 'our marn
ma,' (as lie called her,) to give hin
3 a title to the darkies. At last a nev
I idea found its tangled way into hi
organ of acquisitiveness.
Old Billy was attacked verv sud
denly and very severely with craml
" cholie. le went to bed, rolled
groaned, grunted, and tumbled, con
t tracting his arms and legs. Hi
wire wanted to send for a doctor.
'Oh ! Mely,' it's no use, I *can
revive it. Il suspire 'fore 'night
Espatch Cato to Captain Murry t(
write my last willin' testament.
Capt. Murry came and found th<
dying man in great pain; his eni
was at hand. After the Captain had
mended his pen, ar.d placed his wri
ting 'fixins' all ready, for use, the
sick man whined out in a faint and
weak voice;
'Mely, ax our mamma to come in.
The old Lady conic greatly dis
tressed and sabbing.
'Oh ! Mamma,' . whispered old
Billy in a husky tone, 'I'm ended
and I don't know how to make my
will. Can't you tell me what you 're
gwine to do with dein niggers ov
y.ur' ? You need'nt be .airaid to
tve W ti ne-Pm gu"iwr-give
the mWOS 01 uto Betsy any how.,
Betsy ni'as old Billy's only daughter,
and a name-sake and great favorite
of the old lady.
'Vell Mr. L-, you've always
been lighty good to Inc. I'll give
them all to you, and you can just
place 'em on your children to your
own liking.'
'Put dat down Captain Murry.'
The captain be'ng soncwliat ac
(iaimted with the forns in such cea
ses made and provided, wrote a bill
of sale and silently motioned to the
old ladv to sign it. When she did
s: the dying ain exclaimed
'Witness dat Captin' Murry.'
The Captain signed his n'ame as
witncss to the paper, an:1 laid at the
back (it the talde, next to the bed,
and prepared to write the will. Then
seeing the in mai so (iiet, lie
thought it was stupor, anid called out
to r'use hii
I'in ready to wIite, nrow sir.'
Old Dilly turned in his bed took
up the paper, aial asked inl a voice
wondaerfully i IIIproved
'Is dis a gUod biller sale, Captain
Murry ?'
1Certaily-4 thinkc So.'
Mll, Mly, look 'lind the press,
an~d binz dlat a r ho ttle; many b
C apt in' Murry would like to take a
hl i io it.
TheIl C aph ai barely toued it to
-i hi is thiein setting the bottle on
thde tale, asked,
Wha 1t shIall I write ?'
Why', Captini' I feel 'siderably
lieved l esp ~ajone it a uday' or two.'
>Thaen. sitting uip on the bedlside,
lhe rea chedl ou t his hianid to the bot:tle.
- andl the comiIfort commen i ced runia i
- down this capacious spirit-duet, at
,rate, thati if cominuiired as long as th
moral law, would have made a comn
- mon fish pond of' thre Atlhmtic ocean,
, Then Shiliin the bill ot sile inito hi:
pocet obl ilily exclanimedl, in a f'ull
strng vle
Well~cI Captini' If' T keep on men.
-diin I'll go up t-> Carolton in th<
morn.1ii' and~ hav1 e (dis Iher~e holier sahl
'corded. Then let Loem II-b<
1bothierin' me, I'll teach him i whi<
thienmuggers belon g to.'
, Caiptmin Murry 'vamosed,' ani
Seven now lie goes in to convulsionsi
,any man mfentions the writing of :
-Will.
A spanish proverb says, that tin
Jews rin thiemselvyes ait their passc
1vers, the Moors at thir marriagem
and the Chiiis:ians at their law suite
I Why1 woulli you suppos0.e fish did
I- great dleal of' wei ghing ? IBecaus
ther arlwayus carry seahc.m
A eIcond 1 I#
Aniold . o mp, ofaecy .j~i
Sognomy, answering to tlei ria f
,f Jacob Wilmdt, was brought ber
r the polico court of Philadelphia. His
k. clothes looked as if they iight have
e been bought second-handed in his
youthful prime, for they had suffered
t more from the rubs of the world than
; the proprietor himself.
a IWhat , business do you follow,
v Wilmot?'
a 'Business ? None! I'm a trav.
3 eller,'
a 'A vagabond, perhaps ?
'You are not far wrong-travel
lors and vagabonds are much the
same thing. The difference is that
the latter travels without Money, and
r the former, without brains.
SWhere have you travelled ?'
'All over the continent '
'For what purpose ?.
'Observation!
'What have you observed ?'
'A little to commend, much to
censure, and very much to laugh at.'
'Umph ! and what do you com
mend ?'
'A handsome woman that will stay
at home, an elo(uefnt preacher that
will preach a short sermon, a good
writer that will not write too much,
and a fool who has sense enough to
hold his tongue.'
'What do you censure ?
'A man who marries a girl for
her fine dancing, a youth who stu
dies-law or medicine while he has
tho -use of his hands, and people
who elect a drunkard or blockhead
to office.'
'I laugh at a man who espects hid
position to command that. respect
which his personal qualities and
qualification do not merit.'
He was dismissed.
-Tftl d'grugte a. unia
BY TIlE CHEAP LOARDEIR. 5
And thou too art gone! No more
when day shall veil her face before
the thousand eyes of sombre night,
shalt thou, nocturnal visitant of this f
my humble couch, leave thy secret
haunt, by me oft sought but never
found, and ghoul-like Lanquet on
the blood that lies within my slug
glish ve'ns. Oh, how I'll miss thee!
Miss the itchings, scratchings, slap
pings, and the ardent exorcise of k
bootless search that worried, me so a
oft, and gave a zest and appetite to
aier sleep, that only was vouchsafed
when thou hads't gorged thy fill.
Oft in the lone and solemn watch- t
es of mnysterious night's high moon, C
when nature lay in seeming death a
round, and hallowed thoughts, the t
natural offspring of a holy hour-dis
tilled their baln upon my sinful
soul, and wordly passion powerless
aind dead, lay captive to the genius
of wan's better nature-hast thou,
onawed by circ'umstances or time, or
place, utmninldfil of the thoughts
within me stirred, with noiseless
step my body traveled o'et; plunged
by excruciating fangs deep in some
tender part, and earthwatmd turned
the currenit of pure thought, whlose
fountain wvelled in heaven,.
Ilow have I spr-ung, in madness
from my couch, and searched, aye,
blade by blade, my pallet's humble
straw; how have I scanned each cre
v-ice amid each nook, to wreak my
just revenge upon thy vazmpir-e head.
-How have the iniquisition's ter
rors, and the direst cruelties that
rez my young he'art, when first I
readt the Book of Martyrs, placed
b'elore the tortures I designed for
thee--when idshuld catch thec- and
how have I caught thee not-won
dered where thou'dst fled-mind cv
en thought when wcaried with the
search, thou art no real being, but
camne to me a tspiit bay, whose tomn
porald part in selfdefence I'd slain.
Thus worriied out with speculation,
would I fall asleep-but morning
never failed to show to me t/hy bite at
lestwa ral.
Thou didst not (lie as bugs are
wont to die, but by baneful poison's
lingering tor-turing dleath. Thou
was not crushed as many bug3 have
been by scerowing up afresh the bed
stead's tottering frame. A mouse
trap caught thee! A little tr-ap, tri
angular in frame-a Pixpenny ga
Srote- the offspring of somne gr-eat
mrind down-east, which I did puir
chase and didi bait with cheese, to.
- stop the brea h and gnawing of
a wanton mouse that scuttled my
'i new boots. The bait allured thee,
e and morning's ear-iest dawn dlis
elosed thy strangled form- then nmat
ritkrch of thy race and
thy tribe:
!Ald thou art gohe, ri
unreiStY- .&uh vam irej-1.
nlef thfleid 1to PI Un
fLeas, Vee o genigm (
closr wslp *iI o
-for 4'h u* toughened bf, tI' a
ner,.time-havo run thb g
cheap board through to
ived -on hash ob 't
save rneat-have bb i
one of seven in a be
room in botteet giiieigi
fed te liurstinigallinippers lu e
snored o onet afnofs
cats, settling loves disutea
'mid th6 ills tildt *ed tliiwe
"private board," I swear,
was moved by aught save tbie
PanCOCIOos Fu ~UOTE
iy," said a young three-feetah '
ialf sovereign to his -ipiotd' ?a$ I
rent, "wont you let une go o
Cuby with yotir dubble-barreIt",
to shoot sum Spaniards? l
-ell you- What 'tis dad, I wants
ment, and if yo Iont lt06n0o1
;ar to 'muse myself, I'll boriryi
Ileggott's big pistol and shoot 6t
incle Myers- I will; by jewke
PREPARINO POR A TOI&
ew nights ago Mr. Bodkin, wh 4
)CCn out taking his glass and pipet
;ing home late, burrowed ah 4
>rella; and when his wife's
vas loosened, he sat up in' beda
*uddenly spread out the parap 1ic
'What are y6a going to d it
hat- thing?" said she,
"Why, my. doar, I. expedtd
ofy heavy storm to-night, and d
caine prepared,"
In less than two ntetates
3odkin was V,
AL~ ii
u arti
brongha "medi6m" says hd
i rendering unto seizer the th-in-, t
bat are seizer's."
Trying to the patience Fo
rooden legged man to have a wif3
iven to waltzing.
JIM's DEFINITioi.--RubIU.
iss one again. Omnibus, to kibs then
I, .Blunderous,, to kiss another a
nother 6
:iiSyUMy1bus, oIe ]ady kismit
The Pittsburg Chroniele' saya f u -
ie river is so low at that city, t -v
onfined to its bed.
'Vho made you; inquired a Ia(d
acher of a lubberly boy, who had
itely joined their class. -
'1 don't know,' said he
'Not know! Yoti ought t e
shaiued of yourself A boy fourteen'
ears old! W hy, there's little Dicke
'ilton--he's onily threo--he cami tIi
are say. Comu here, Dickey; whd
unde ) ou? .
'Iod!' lisped the infant prodi
"There," said the teacher triunmphart
ly, '1 knew he would remeniber."
"Well, lie oughter," said the boy; "I
iint but a litle while ago since i
"Mladam, what age shall I put yoid
lowii?" (No direct answer.-) ."liov
>hl is your hushand?" %xty.one.
'Anid your eldest son'?" "heiy
even.'' "And how old do ya
all you'rself'?" "1 do not kniow
ny age exactly, hut it is abut tlifr
y." 'Didl I understand you, (mda
nt your eldest was twenty-sevgn~'n
'* es." "You miust surely, -thoin,'Abe
note than thirty?" "Well, sir, quit
mniapiishly, I toad you about~ thirty:
:aum L tell exactly. It nmay be th3 t
ue or two, but I am psitive ~i
tot over that."
Why is a cruel man ike eadhf
Hel has a heart of stone.
A CuaWrr Pm~en.--A hilt on the
inse that draws blood.
The man that minds his owit
iusiness has got a good steady, cm
Aloy nent.
Young ladies are like arrows--the~
an't be got off' without abe.
T1hme Belfhst (Me.) Jourital hsA
love story iin it., of whiuch the editor
ys; "If it has anty virLtuu it ic* i
its iuth."
Considering, says Punch, ti i
menuse v'arietyv of smells that. emanat
troum the Ihazmnes, wvhat a caydlisp
ulation the river would be, If it. ooul
be umnadeto paty one per (s) een1
The publishier of' tho. 1(niekbooker
Magazino says he would K Mthe
sit up all night;. to entet tho ames ot
new prepaid subsci-ibers, thanm to
wr-ito dunninug lo-ters two hous a
day. Whlat a stmange e~rversio
of talstC! .